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SELIM E. GROUT, OF WEST CONCORD, VERMONT. Leners Patent No; 87,843, amd Merch 16,1869.

IMPROVEIIENT IN The Schedule referred to in these Letten Patent and mklng part of the Ilmo.

To all persons to whom these presents ma/y come:

Be it known that I, SELIM E. GROUT, of West Ooncord, in the county of Essex, and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful lor Improved Towel- Drier, for a stove-pipe or funnel; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and

' Figure 2, a side elevation of it.

The apparatus in question is to be appliedto the upright part of a stove-funnel, and over a stove, it being for the purpose of supporting towels, clothes, or other articles for being dried or heated by the heat radiated from such funnel or stove.

In the drawings- A denotes a sectional clamp, constructed in two halves, a a, formed as represented.

These two portions are to be' hinged together at their rear ends, or are to be provided with screws, or other proper devices, for connecting and disconnecting them. r

- When fixed on a stove-funnel, su'ch funnel goes through the circular opening b between such parts, they being held to the funnel by being clamped upon it.

Each of the said parts c supports a rail, or bent wire, B, which is arranged upon, and 'so as to extend above the said part at its front, in manner as shown in the drawings.

Each wire, or rail B, which is curved lengthwise, serves as the fulcrum for a series of ladial levers, C C C, each of whichis applied to the rail,.so as to be capable of being revolved or turned thereon, in order that the shorter arm of such lever may be caught under, aswell as removed from, when necessary, one of a series of hooks, D D D, arranged and extended upward from the part a, in manner as represented.

Each of the hooks, when caught upon a lever, serves to hold it in, or about in, a horizontal position; but when the lever is out of connection with the hooked arm, such lever will fall into a vertical position, Iso as to cause the whole apparatus to take up less room, or be capable of being packed in less space, than it does when the levers are projected horizontally and radially from it.

' To the front of one of the p'arts a, I usually apply a hook, E, on which an article, such as a stove-hook or plate-lifter, may be hung, as occasion may require.

I claim the combination and arrangement of the two series of levers O C O, their supporting rails B B, the two sexies of hooks D D D, and the sectional clamp A,

made in two parts, a a, so as to be clamped or applied to a stove-funnel, as described.

SELIM E. GROUT. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,Y F. P. HALE, Jr. 

